A rough trip to the amusement park

Things with Thomas are just emotionally tough these days.  I know everything will most likely be fine, but he is at that tough age...right smack in the middle of the middle school years.  Many things make me sad and nostalgic about my kids growing up.  The fact that I will never have another seventh grader is not one of those things on the list.

Friday evening was a little rough just trying to get him ready.  Andrew and I are working very hard on not taking our frustrations out on him and to remember that he is trying...his brain is just overwhelmed.  At the same time, he has got to figure out how to function productively...that is a fact of life.  Eventually we go things put together and ready to go for our 5:30 wake up time.

Andrew was willing to get up and take him, but as "mom", I needed to go over things with him one more time.  I went back to bed as soon as they were out the door, and was very grateful for another few hours of sleep.  When I got up, I began working on picking up the house, as well as many things that needed to be handled for my band volunteer job.  About half way through the afternoon, the band director called.  At first I was going to let it go to voicemail so I could handle whatever when I had a little more time.  Then I remembered that he was in charge of my son, and I ran to the phone.  Sure enough, Thomas had become sick on a roller coaster ride.  I neglected to think about the impact of not eating enough on my motion-sickness-prone son.  For whatever reason, an empty stomach is the worst for him.  Both Thomas and the director assured me he'd be fine the rest of the trip, and since there were only two hours left at the park I was all for it.

Unfortunately, Thomas didn't eat anything else the rest of the day, and there was more sickness on the bus (twice) and again when Robert picked him up.  Oh goodness!  It sure is hard on a mom's heart to know your child is struggling.  As soon as we were able to get food in him, he was chipper again, and slept very well that night.

As I said to Andrew, his system is just more fragile than most, and to a certain extent it has always been that way.  I also pointed out to Andrew though, that President Kennedy was sickly as a child, so there are still lots of things that can be accomplished!